My question is for Mr. Bloor. When I was in Yukon, I met with a lot of community groups and organizations. They raised many concerns about this particular agency. It wasn't that they didn't agree with the scope or focus, in terms of meeting a mandate for economic development in the north. But they felt the agency itself had become a political agency and they did not feel there was fairness in the assessments and in the approval of applications.
I had a lot of complaints in that regard when I was there. That was why I started looking for where the money inside the agency was going.
Those comments came to me from Yukon, an area you're responsible for, so I wonder if you can tell me how applications from local service groups and organizations are assessed and approved, and who makes the final decision on the approval of those applications.